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| Last weekend I was at BPS watching the fish in the tank while my wife was in the restroom. I noticed a nice fat trout with a fresh set of chomp marks on it. I took a look at Fritz (the 47" in the tank) and she wasn't paying the fish much attention. A couple minutes later I noticed that the dumb trout had relocated rather close to Fritz but she still didn't appear to paying the trout much attention. Then one of satan's offspring threw a coin into the tank which landed very close to Fritz. As the coin fell it gave off ton's of flash flipping its way down to the bottom. As soon as I saw the first flash Fritz exploded on that trout. She missed but it was quite the sight to see. This caused me to wonder...should I put a flip tail on my suckers like you can on a Dawg? |
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| I have a better idea, toss quarters in the lake when you fish with suckers! Or perhaps one should keep a bucket of quarters handy to throw in when you get a follow? I know I have a lot of fishing days where I feel like all I am doing is throwing money away, perhaps we should do it for real.
Roy |
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| Welcome Roy C,
Roy has a great idea, just like a slot machine, keep pitching quarters in the water and maybe you will hit the jackpot.[:bigsmile:] |
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| Jason,
Please don't talk about slots..lol. Vegas was not great to me but it also wasn't good. The only slot I hit on was at the darn airport.
I didn't know that was the Musky's name in the tank my friends and I always called it Girtha!
-Phil
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| You may be on to something here. Toward the end of last winter I tried something along these lines with pike tip-ups......
I attached a bunch of shiny silver (mylar?) strips just above the sucker using a rubber core sinker. I bought the strips at a local baitshop that sells fly tying supplies. My goal was to create a flashy, undulating attraction that would get even more active as the nervous sucker tried to get away from an investigating pike. Looked good to me, though I didn't have enough field trials to know if it really made a difference. I'll try it again with a musky sucker this summer and report back. |
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| Another bass pro tank story. My oldest son was sitting there with his face to the glass with a 10" bluegill in front of his face. The big hybrid with the goofy nose shot from nowhere to eat it, inches from his face. I seen the tail sticking out of his mouth, my son thought the whole thing was cool. |
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